PAUL McCARTNEY

Paul McCartney’s instrumentd mainly played include. Hofner 500/1 bass guitar. Rickenbacker 4001 bass. Gibson Les Paul. Epiphone Casino.

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Sir James Paul McCartney

Description: Vocalist, Guitarist, Bassist, UK
Known For: The singer and composer of the famed – “Yesterday”

Instruments: Voice , Bass guitar, guitar, piano, keyboards, drums
Music Styles: Rock, pop rock, rock and roll, classical

Location: United Kingdom

Date Born: 18th June 1942
Location Born: Liverpool, United Kingdom

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Web Site: Paul McCartney

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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Sir James Paul McCartney MBE

An English Musician, Artist, Composer.

One of the worlds most prolific song writers and has been an active musician since 1957.

Founding member of The Beatles.The Beatles disbanded in 1970.

Paul McCartney, born in Liverpool Walton Hospital, in Liverpool, England, where his mother, Mary, had worked as a nurse in the maternity ward. He has one brother, Michael, born 7 January 1944.

In 1947, at age five, he began attending Stockton Wood Road Primary school. He then attended the Joseph Williams Junior School, and passed the 11-plus exam in 1953.

In 1955 the McCartney family moved to 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton.

On 31 October 1956, Mary McCartney who was a heavy smoker died of an embolism after a mastectomy operation to stop the spread of her breast cancer.

McCartney’s father was a trumpet player and pianist who had led Jim Mac’s Jazz Band in the 1920s.

McCartney met Lennon and the Quarrymen a band formed by John Lennon with several school friends at the Woolton St. Peter’s church hall fete on 6 July 1957.

McCartney and Linda Eastman were married at a small civil ceremony when Linda was four months pregnant with McCartney’s child at Marylebone Registry Office on 12 March 1969.

On 11 June 2002, McCartney married Mills, a former model and anti-landmines campaigner, in an elaborate ceremony at Castle Leslie in Glaslough, County Monaghan, Ireland

At the start of their friendship Lennon’s Aunt Mimi disapproved of McCartney because he was, she said, “working class”

Paul McCartney is an Academy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles.

McCartney and John Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and “wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history.

McCartney is today one of Britain’s wealthiest men, with an estimated fortune of £760 million. In addition to his interest in Apple Corps, McCartney’s MPL Communications owns a significant music publishing catalogue, with access to over 25,000 copyrights. McCartney earned £40 million in 2003, making him Britain’s highest media earner This rose to £48.5 million by 2005.

MPL Communications is the holding company for the business interests of Sir Paul McCartney. In addition to handling McCartney’s post-Beatles work, MPL has also become one of the world’s largest privately owned music publishers through its acquisition of numerous other publishing companies.MPL, which stands for “McCartney Productions Limited,” is based in London and New York.

MPL publishing owns a wide range of copyrighted material – covering nearly 100 years of music – by composers including McCartney, Buddy Holly, Jerry Herman, Frank Loesser, Meredith Willson, Harold Arlen and many others, with songs such as, “Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody” which was made famous by Al Jolson in its catalogue. It also controls 25 subsidiary companies.

McCartney is listed in The Guinness Book Of Records as the most successful musician and composer in popular music history,with sales of 100 million singles and 60 gold discs. McCartney has achieved twenty-nine number-one singles in the U.S., twenty of them with The Beatles, the rest with Wings and as a solo artist.

On 12 June 1965, McCartney and the three other Beatles were appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE); they received their insignia from the Queen at an investiture at Buckingham Palace on 26 October.

On 11 March 1997, he was knighted for his “services to music”. He dedicated his knighthood to fellow Beatles John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, and to the people of Liverpool

In February 1990, McCartney was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

On 2 July 2005, he was involved with the fastest-released single in history.

His performance of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” with U2 at Live was released only 45 minutes after it was performed, before the end of the concert.

Paul McCartney will receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, a US Library of Congress honour bestowed on the likes of Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder.

The prize is named for US composer brothers George and Ira Gershwin, many of whose original works are part of the Library’s huge collection.

“It is hard to think of another performer and composer who has had a more indelible and transformative effect on popular song and music of several different genres than Paul McCartney,” said Librarian of Congress James Billington yesterday, who selected the British icon.

Singles Include.

1971 “Another Day” non-album single “Oh Woman, Oh Why”
1971 “The Back Seat of My Car” Ram “Heart of the Country”
1971 “Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey” “Too Many People”
1972 “Give Ireland Back to the Irish”
1972 “Mary Had a Little Lamb” “Little Woman Love”
1972 “Hi, Hi, Hi” “C Moon”
1973 “My Love” Red Rose Speedway “The Mess”
1973 “Live and Let Die” “I Lie Around”
1973 “Helen Wheels” “Country Dreamer”
1973 “Jet” Band on the Run “Let Me Roll It” “Mamunia”
1974 “Band on the Run” “Zoo Gang” “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five”
1974 “Junior’s Farm” non-album single “Sally G”
1974 “Walking in the Park with Eloise” (by The Country Hams) single “Bridge over the River Suite” (by The Country Hams)
1975 “Listen to What the Man Said” Venus and Mars “Love in Song”
1975 “Letting Go” “You Gave Me the Answer”
1975 “Venus and Mars/Rock Show” “Magneto and Titanium Man”
1976 “Silly Love Songs” Wings “Cook of the House”
1976 “Let ‘Em In” “Beware My Love”
1977 “Maybe I’m Amazed” “Soily”
1977 “Mull of Kintyre” “Girls’ School”
1978 “With a Little Luck” “Backwards Traveler/Cuff-Link”
1978 “I’ve Had Enough” “Deliver Your Children”
1978 “London Town” “I’m Carrying”
1979 “Goodnight Tonight” “Daytime Nightime Suffering”
1979 “Old Siam, Sir” “Spin It On”
1979 “Getting Closer” “Baby’s Request” “Spin It On”
1979 “Arrow Through Me” “Old Siam, Sir”
1979 “Wonderful Christmastime” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reggae”
1980 “Coming Up” “Coming Up” “Lunchbox/Odd Sox”
1980 “Waterfalls” “Check My Machine”
1982 “Ebony and Ivory” (with Stevie Wonder) “Rainclouds”
1982 “Take It Away” “I’ll Give You a Ring”
1982 “Tug of War” “Get It”
1982 “The Girl is Mine” (with Michael Jackson) “Can’t Get Outta the Rain” (by Michael Jackson)
1983 “Say Say Say” (with Michael Jackson) “Ode to a Koala Bear” 1983 “Pipes of Peace” “So Bad”
1984 “No More Lonely Nights” “No More Lonely Nights” “No More Lonely Nights”
1984 “We All Stand Together” “We All Stand Together”
1985 “Spies Like Us” “My Carnival”
1986 “Press” “It’s Not True”
1986 “Pretty Little Head” “Write Away”
1986 “Only Love Remains” “Tough on a Tightrope” 1986 “Stranglehold” “Angry”
1987 “Let It Be” “Let It Be”
1987 “Once Upon a Long Ago” “Back on My Feet”
1989 “Ferry Cross the Mersey” “Abide with Me” (Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Choir)
1989 “My Brave Face” “Flying to My Home”
1989 “This One” “The First Stone” “The Long and Winding Road” 1989 “Figure of Eight” “Ou Est le Soleil”
1990 “Put it There” “Mama’s Little Girl”
1990 “Birthday” “Good Day Sunshine”
1990 “All My Trials” “C Moon”
1992 “Hope of Deliverance” “Long Leather Coat”
1993 “C’Mon People” “I Can’t Imagine”
1993 “Off the Ground” “Cosmically Conscious”/”Down to the River” 1997 “Young Boy” Flaming Pie “Looking for You”
1997 “The World Tonight” “Used to Be Bad”
1997 “Beautiful Night” “Love Come Tumbling Down”
1999 “No Other Baby” “Brown-Eyed Handsome Man”/”Fabulous”
2001 “From a Lover to a Friend” “Riding into Jaipur”
2001 “Freedom” “From a Lover to a Friend”
2004 “Tropic Island Hum” non-album single “We All Stand Together”
2005 “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” “The Long and Winding Road” (live with U2)
2005 “Fine Line” “Growing Up Falling Down”
2005 “Jenny Wren” “Summer of ’59”
2006 “This Never Happened Before”
2007 “Ever Present Past”
2007 “Dance Tonight” “Nod Your Head”
2007 “Nod Your Head” “Nod Your Head”

Albums after the Beatles.

McCartney, Paul McCartney studio album, 1970
Ram, Paul & Linda McCartney studio album, 1971
Wild Life, Wings studio album, 1971
Red Rose Speedway, Paul McCartney & Wings studio album, 1973
Band on the Run, Paul McCartney & Wings studio album, 1973
Venus and Mars, Wings studio album, 1975
Wings at the Speed of Sound, Wings studio album, 1976
London Town, Wings studio album, 1978
Back to the Egg, Wings studio album,June 1979
McCartney II, Paul McCartney studio album, 1980
Tug of War, Paul McCartney studio album, 1982
Pipes of Peace, Paul McCartney studio album, 1983
Give My Regards to Broad Street Paul McCartney soundtrack album 1984
Press to Play, Paul McCartney studio album, 1986
Ñíîâà â ÑÑÑÐ, Paul McCartney studio album, 1988
Flowers in the Dirt, Paul McCartney studio album, 1989
Off the Ground, Paul McCartney studio album, 1993
Flaming Pie, Paul McCartney studio album, 1997
Run Devil Run, Paul McCartney studio album, 1999
Driving Rain, Paul McCartney studio album, 2001
Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, Paul McCartney studio album, 2005
Memory Almost Full, Paul McCartney studio album, 2007

Live Albums include.

Wings over America, Wings live album, 1976
Tripping the Live Fantastic, Paul McCartney live album, 1990
Tripping the Live Fantastic: Highlights!, Paul McCartney live 1990
Unplugged (The Official Bootleg), Paul McCartney live album, 1991
Paul is Live, Paul McCartney live album, 1993
Back in the U.S., Paul McCartney live album, 2002
Back in the World, Paul McCartney live album, 2003

DVDs and videos

Rockshow 1980
McCartney’s 1976 “Wings Over America” tour.
Give My Regards to Broad Street 1984
Standing Stone 2000
Live at the Cavern Club!2001
Filmed live at the Cavern Club 1999Cavern Club. 2003
The Animation Collection 2004
Put It There 2004
Paul McCartney’s Get Back World Tour 2005
Paul McCartney in Red Square 2005
The Space Within 2006
The McCartney Years 2007

LINKS:

• Media related to Paul McCartney at Wikimedia Commons
• Quotations related to Paul McCartney at Wikiquote
• Paul McCartney

  at AllMusic

• Paul McCartney

  in the Hollywood Walk of Fame Directory
• rupert and the frog – Paul McCartney’s Animation 2005-11-24

  at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 November 2005)

• Paul McCartney

  at the Internet Movie Database

• Babiuk, Andy; Bacon, Tony (editor) (2002). Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four’s Instruments, from Stage to Studio

  (Revised ed.). Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-0-87930-731-8.

• Bacon, Tony; Morgan, Gareth (2006). Paul McCartney – Bass Master – Playing the Great Beatles Basslines

  (1st ed.). Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-0-87930-884-1.

• Badman, Keith (1999). The Beatles After the Breakup 1970–2000: A Day-by-Day Diary (2001 ed.). Omnibus. ISBN 978-0-7119-8307-6.
• Benitez, Vincent Perez (2010). The Words and Music of Paul McCartney: The Solo Years

  . Praeger. ISBN 978-0-313-34969-0.

• Blaney, John (2007). Lennon and McCartney: Together Alone (1st ed.). Jawbone Press. ISBN 978-1-906002-02-2.
• Bronson, Fred (1992). The Billboard Book of Number One Hits

  (3rd revised ed.). Billboard Books. ISBN 978-0-8230-8298-8.

• Brown, Peter; Gaines, Steven (2002). The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of The Beatles

  . New American Library. ISBN 978-0-451-20735-7.

• Buk, Askold (1996). “Strum Together”. Guitar World: Acoustic (17).
• Carlin, Peter Ames (2009). Paul McCartney: A Life

  . Touchstone. ISBN 978-1-4165-6209-2.

• Doggett, Peter (2009). You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup

  (1st US hardcover ed.). Harper. ISBN 978-0-06-177446-1.

• Emerick, Geoff; Massey, Howard (2006). Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles

  . Gotham. ISBN 978-1-59240-269-4.

• Everett, Walter (1999). The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology

  . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512941-0.

• George-Warren, Holly, ed. (2001). The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (2005 revised and updated ed.). Fireside. ISBN 978-0-7432-9201-6.
• Gould, Jonathan (2007). Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America

  (First Paperback ed.). Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-307-35338-2.

• Graff, Gary (January 2000). “Yesterday & Today”. Guitar World 20 (1).
• Glenday, Craig (editor) (2008). Guinness World Records 2009. Guinness World Records Ltd. ISBN 978-1-904994-37-4.
• Harry, Bill (2000a). The Beatles Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated. Virgin. ISBN 978-0-7535-0481-9.
• Harry, Bill (2003). The George Harrison Encyclopedia. Virgin. ISBN 978-0-7535-0822-0.
• Harry, Bill (2000b). The John Lennon Encyclopedia. Virgin. ISBN 978-0-7535-0404-8.
• Harry, Bill (2002). The Paul McCartney Encyclopedia. Virgin. ISBN 978-0-7535-0716-2.
• Ingham, Chris (2009). The Rough Guide to The Beatles (3rd ed.). Rough Guides. ISBN 978-1-84836-525-4.
• Jisi, Chris (October 2005). “He Can Work It Out”. Bass Player 16 (10).
• Kastan, David Scott (2006). Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

  1. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-516921-8.

• Levy, Joe (editor) (2005). Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (First Paperback ed.). Wenner Books. ISBN 978-1-932958-61-4.
• Lewisohn, Mark (1992). The Complete Beatles Chronicle:The Definitive Day-By-Day Guide to the Beatles’ Entire Career (2010 ed.). Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-56976-534-0.
• Lewisohn, Mark (editor) (2002). Wingspan: Paul McCartney’s Band on the Run. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-86032-1.
• “Most Excellent Order of the British Empire”

  . The London Gazette (supplement). 4 June 1965. Retrieved 11 May 2010.

• MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles’ Records and the Sixties

  (3rd (2007) ed.). Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-733-3.

• McCartney, Paul; Mitchell, Adrian (editor) (2001). Blackbird singing: Poems and Lyrics 1965–1999. W.W. Norton and Company Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-02049-6.
• McGee, Garry (2003). Band on the Run: A History of Paul McCartney and Wings

  . Taylor Trade. ISBN 978-0-87833-304-2.

• Miles, Barry (1997). Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now

  (1st Hardcover ed.). Henry Holt & Company. ISBN 978-0-8050-5248-0.

• Miles, Barry (1998). The Beatles: A Diary—An Intimate Day by Day History (2009 ed.). JG Press. ISBN 978-1-57215-010-2.
• Miles, Barry (2001). The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Years

  . Omnibus. ISBN 978-0-7119-8308-3.

• Molenda, Michael (November 2005). “Here, There, and Everywhere”. Guitar Player 39 (11).
• Mulhern, Tom (July 1990). “Paul McCartney”. Guitar Player. 24, No.7 (246).
• Roberts, David (editor) (2005). British Hit Singles & Albums (18 ed.). Guinness World Records Limited. ISBN 978-1-904994-00-8.
• Sandford, Christopher (2006). McCartney. Carroll & Graf. ISBN 978-0-7867-1614-2.
• Sheff, David; Golson, G. Barry (editor) (1981). The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon & Yoko Ono. Playboy Press. ISBN 0-87223-705-2.
• Sounes, Howard (2010). Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney

  . Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81783-0.

• Southall, Brian; Perry, Rupert (contributor) (2006). Northern Songs: The True Story of the Beatles Song Publishing Empire

  . Omnibus. ISBN 978-1-84609-237-4.

• Spitz, Bob (2005). The Beatles: The Biography. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-80352-6.
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• Wenner, Jann; George-Warren, Holly (editor) (2000). Lennon Remembers

  . Verso. ISBN 1-85984-600-9.

• Womack, Kenneth (2007). Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles. Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-1746-6.

• Further reading

  • Barrow, Tony (2005). John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me: The Real Beatles Story

    . Thunder’s Mouth. ISBN 1-56025-882-9.

  • Barrow, Tony (2004). Paul McCartney. Carlton Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84442-822-9.
  • Davies, Hunter (2009). The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (3rd revised ed.). W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-33874-4.
  • Gambaccini, Paul (1993). Paul McCartney: In His Own Words

    . Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-86001-239-9.

  • Gambaccini, Paul (1996). The McCartney Interviews: After the Break-Up

    (2 ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-7119-5494-6.

  • Gracen, Jorie B. (2000). Paul McCartney: I Saw Him Standing There. Watson-Guptill Publications. ISBN 978-0-8230-8372-5.
  • Kirchherr, Astrid; Voormann, Klaus (1999). Hamburg Days. Guildford, Surrey: Genesis Publications. ISBN 978-0-904351-73-6.
  • Martin, George (1979). All You Need Is Ears

    . New York: St. Martin’s Press. ISBN 978-0-312-11482-4.

  • Martin, George; Pearson, William (1994). Summer of Love: The Making of Sgt. Pepper. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-60398-2.
  • Peel, Ian (2002). The Unknown Paul McCartney: McCartney and the avant-garde

    . Reynolds & Hearn. ISBN 978-1-903111-36-9.

  • Raymer, Miles (2010). How to Analyze the Music of Paul McCartney

    . ABDO Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-61613-531-7.